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date	23/01/2019
answering body	Home Office
answering dept id	1
answering dept short name	Home Office
answering dept sort name	Home Office
hansard heading	Modern Slavery Act 2015: Convictions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps he has taken to improve the process of securing a conviction under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff South and Penarth
tabling member printed	Stephen Doughty
uin	211783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2019 answer text <p>The Prime Minister has convened a taskforce to coordinate the response across Government to this complex crime.</p><p>Following this, the Government has provided £8.5m of additional funding to the police in England and Wales to help improve the front line response to tackling modern slavery</p><p>Aligned to this activity, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has delivered mandatory accredited training for all prosecutors who work on modern slavery cases and have appointed a Chief Crown Prosecutor lead for modern slavery work across the CPS. CPS training has a strong focus on the provision of early investigative advice to police forces so that charges may be made under the Modern Slavery Act 2015.</p><p>Through the Serious Violence Strategy we have provided £3.6 million over the next two years to establish a new National County Lines Co-ordination Centre. The NCLCC was launched on 21 September 2018.</p><p>The NCLCC will help bring the law enforcement effort together as the links behind county lines are complicated and the threat crosses police force boundaries. The NCLCC will support operational policing as well as providing a central point at which intelligence and information is shared and the links with criminal exploitation and illegal drugs markets are identified.</p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 28/01/2019 16:56:50 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4264 label Biography information for Stephen Doughty

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date	23/10/2014
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2014 from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools to the Earl of Listowel, Official Report, House of Lords, column 553, what estimate she has made of the number of schools that do not prioritise looked-after children.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	211783
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2014 answer text <p>The School Admissions Code 2012 requires all state-funded schools to give admission priority to looked-after and previously looked-after children. [1]</p><p>In May this year the Department issued additional guidance to clarify its position for school admission authorities in relation to children adopted from local authority care. This was to ensure that all children adopted from local authority care in England and Wales should have the highest priority rather than restricting priority to those children adopted from care under the Adoption and Children Act 2002.</p><p>The most recent report of the Office of the Schools Adjudicator indicates that this requirement has been met in most of the arrangements seen by adjudicators (<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307182/osa_annual_report_12-13.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/307182/osa_annual_report_12-13.pdf</a>) but acknowledges there is more to be done to ensure that all schools comply fully with this requirement.</p><p>The Children and Families Act 2014 included a new provision to place the role of Virtual School Head (VSH) on a statutory footing. VSHs have a role in promoting the education of the children their authority looks after and that includes ensuring everyone understands the requirements in the Code.</p><p> </p><p>[1] Previously looked-after children are those who have been adopted from care and those who left care under a Special Guardianship Order or Residence (now Child Arrangements) Order.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 28/10/2014 17:41:31 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan